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What Saith the Scripture?
http://www.WhatSaithTheScripture.com/
from the series
Stories of Faith
Noah's Ark
King James Version by The Holy Spirit through Moses
with notes by Katie Stewart
"By FAITH Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved
with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned
the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by FAITH"
(Hebrews 11:7).
by Katie Stewart
6-24-2000
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The Book of Genesis
Chapters 5:28 - 9:19
Chapter 5
"LAMECH LIVED AN HUNDRED EIGHTY AND TWO
YEARS, and begat a son: 29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort
us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD
hath cursed... 32
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth."
Noah was "called... with an holy calling, not according to [Noah's] works, but
according to [God's] Own Purpose and Grace, which was given us IN Christ Jesus before
the world began" (2Timothy 1:9).Noah's "purpose", preordained by God, was to demonstrate
that God's "comfort" delivers a righteous people "IN Christ Jesus"
from a sinful, "cursed" people who are WITHOUT "Christ Jesus".
"Comfort" may not have been the word we would have first chosen to describe
Noah's involvement in the world-ending event known as "The Flood".
"Judgment" definitely comes to the forefront of choice guesses as to what Noah's name could have meant. "A preacher of Righteousness" describes what Noah "preached" for, but by its very nature, also declares what Noah "preached" against.
But Scripture records for Eternity the fact of Noah's name, and the meaning of Noah's name. Noah was to be God's "comfort" from the curse or "cursed". Noah was named "Comfort" to reveal the "rest" we have IN the Salvation Ark of Jesus Christ.
5146h. Noach from 5117; "rest," patriarch who survived The Flood. --from "Strong's Concordance"
The Hebrew for "Noah" is "rest". Noah
rested ABOVE the judgment-- not in it. Noah and his ark are a type for Christ and
His Rapture.
Just "as" Noah, "so shall" Christ.
Just like "the ark", so is the Rapture.
Judgment was about to fall on the sin-filled world of that day.
And judgment is about to fall on the sin-filled world of today.
Chapter 6
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the
face of the Earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair;
and they took them wives of all which they chose."
The LORD wants us to take special notice of the type of sin that was the most
common just prior to the world's judgment. "The sons of God" thought
so little of the Almighty that they would actually join themselves in the most
intimate way, to God's enemies. God's people are NOT to choose their spouses
from among the ungodly. We are talking about two separate worlds, with opposite motives,
antagonistic values, and NO common ground. Men obey God-- in ALL things-- or they
don't. There is no middle ground. There are no shades of gray. There is only Divine
Light, or darkness forever.
Marriage is to be a sacred union, where two people are joined together BY GOD into one.
If a servant of the LORD disobeys God and marries an unbeliever, assuredly, they will have problems.
The rebellious act of one who "confesses with the mouth" (Romans 10:10) the LORD Jesus, to sinfully make physical union together with one who defies God, makes spiritual union with God impossible.
IF the LORD's servant repents, there is hope.
But, because there was no repentance, in Noah's day
(nor in our own), for the fact that "the sons of God saw the daughters of men
that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose", there
was no hope.
"3 And the
LORD said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh:
yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."
This was the length of time, "an hundred and twenty years," that God gave
Noah to build the ark before judgment fell on the disobedient.
"4 There were giants in the Earth in those days; and also after that,
when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to
them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And God saw
that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth, and that every imagination of
the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the LORD that He had made man on the Earth, and
it grieved Him at His heart. 7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the
face of the Earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of
the air; for it repenteth Me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found
Grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9 These are the
generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and
Noah walked with God. 10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth."
Noah, being "perfect", gave his finite 100% in the same manner that God
gives His infinite 100%. [Read more on "perfection":
"An Urgent Call to Christian Perfection, Or, An Exposition of the Doctrine
of Christian Perfection" -- http://WhatSaithTheScripture.com/Fellowship/Exposition.Perfection.html
-- by Tom Stewart.]
"11 The Earth also was corrupt before God, and the Earth was filled with violence. 12 And God looked upon the Earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the Earth."
"13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before Me; for the Earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the Earth."
"14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark,
and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: the length
of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the
height of it thirty cubits. 16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish
it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower,
second, and third stories shalt thou make it. 17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the Earth,
to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every
thing that is in the Earth shall die.
18 But with thee will I establish My Covenant;
and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons'
wives with thee. 19
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the
ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 20 Of fowls after their kind, and of
cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the Earth after his kind, two
of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. 21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou
shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. 22 Thus did Noah; according
to ALL that God commanded him, so did he."
The reason the LORD made a Covenant with Noah was because He knew Noah to be a faithful
man, one which would keep a Covenant with Himself. "Thus did Noah; according
to ALL that God commanded him, so did he." FAITH in God causes faithfulness
in man. FAITH is the foundation and "substance of things hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1). "Without FAITH it is impossible to please Him [the LORD]:
for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a Rewarder
of them that diligently seek Him" (6). When a man, woman, or child comes to God in FAITH, and believes
whatever God says by doing whatever God commands then "God is not ashamed to
be called their God" (16). God enters into Covenant with His people, and never fails to do
as He promised. A covenant is a two-way agreement-- not just an unconditional promise.
God has "prepared for them a City" (16), "a Better Country, that is, an heavenly" (16) in beauty and majesty,
with "a far more exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory" (2Corinthians 4:17). And that's just
God's part after this present life is over. His part is also to be with us, and in
us ("Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us" [Matthew 1:23]), in this life until
the next.
Our part in being faithful to God and the Covenant we make with Him, is to love Him enough to believe and obey Him-- no matter what comes.
Noah loved the LORD so much that he believed what God told him, and did what God told him to do.
Chapter 7
"And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all
thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation.
2 Of every clean
beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that
are not clean by two, the male and his female. 3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to
keep seed alive upon the face of all the Earth. 4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the Earth forty
days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy
from off the face of the Earth.
5 And Noah did
according unto ALL that the LORD commanded him. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old [six = the number of man, i.e.,
"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:
for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and
six [666]" (Revelation 13:18)] when The Flood of waters was upon the Earth. 7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and
his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of The
Flood. 8 Of clean
beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth
upon the Earth, 9
there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God
had commanded Noah. 10
And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of The Flood were upon the
Earth.
11 In the six
hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month,
the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows
of heaven were opened. 12
And the rain was upon the Earth forty days and forty nights.
13 In the selfsame
day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's
wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14 They, and every beast after his kind,
and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the Earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
15 And they went
in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
16 And they that
went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the
LORD shut him in."
Everything that God said would happen, did happen. The animals, "two of every
beast after his kind" walked into the ark "unto Noah". "Two
of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life" from over the "face
of the Earth", gathered at the ark and entered on "the selfsame
day" that the rain began to fall! Seven days before the rain was to begin,
God gave warning. "For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the
Earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will
I destroy from off the face of the Earth." Noah had to wait a whole week, the
clock ticking the countdown, until the most impossible thing in the whole world was
to happen! Mockers and scorners must have tried his FAITH in God. They always do,
"saying, Where is the Promise of His Coming? for since the fathers fell asleep,
all things continue as they were from the beginning of the Creation" (2Peter 3:4). "An hundred
and twenty years" in the making, those last seven days must have been quite
a trial. After building the most unusual vessel in the world, hoping to load it with
the biggest collection of animals, reptiles, insects, etc., in the world, and then
expecting a worldwide flood to wipe out all of humanity not on that vessel-- Noah's
FAITH was then tested with a WAIT! And Noah passed his test with a sure FAITH in
what God had told him. "And
the LORD shut him in."
"17 And The Flood was forty days upon the Earth; and the waters increased,
and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the Earth. 18 And the waters prevailed,
and were increased greatly upon the Earth; and the ark went upon the face
of the waters. 19
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the Earth; and all the high hills,
that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail..."
[cu•bit: n. 1. An ancient unit of linear measure, originally equal to the length of the forearm from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow, or about 17 to 22 inches (43 to 56 centimeters). Middle English cubite from Latin cubitum cubit, elbow.] --from "American Heritage Dictionary. "Fifteen cubits" equals 21.25 to 27.5 feet.
"...and the mountains were covered. 21 And all flesh died that moved upon the Earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the Earth, and every man: 22 all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. 23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the Earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed upon the Earth an hundred and fifty days."
As the door of the ark closes by the hand of God, Noah's test continues. It's difficult
to appreciate just what Noah must have felt, but the LORD gives us a record of what
happened that we might try. Being "of like passions" (Acts 14:15) as Noah, how would you
feel if you knew:
Noah was a man of FAITH. He believed God. And since "of
a Truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons" (Acts 10:34), I know, that as the LORD
later said of David, "a man after Mine Own Heart, which shall fulfil ALL My
will" (Acts 13:22),
so would He feel about Noah also, or of any child of His that obeyed in FAITH.
Chapter 8
"And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle
that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the Earth, and the
waters asswaged; 2
the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and
the rain from heaven was restrained; 3 And the waters returned from off the Earth continually: and
after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. 4 And the ark rested in the
seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
5 And the waters
decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first
day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen."
Noah's FAITH in God was not confounded.
"God remembered Noah," and left us His Record that we also would have FAITH in Him and be "remembered" by Him.
"6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the
window of the ark which he had made: 7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the
waters were dried up from off the Earth. 8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated
from off the face of the ground; 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned
unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole Earth: then he
put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark."
Just like "the ark", so is the Rapture. Both require patience. Both
are meant to rescue the righteous.
Side Note Number 1: David Stewart-- "The Mind of
Christ reveals circumstances which we share with Brother Noah. The one circumstance
that interests me at this moment, is that of waiting 'upon the LORD'. 'And it shall
be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save
us: this is the LORD; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His
Salvation' (Isaiah 25:9)...
Noah knew he had 120 years to prepare his Ark. That's more than a lifetime to most
modern men. He had to wait for the LORD to fulfill His Word for more than the length
of time it takes us to be born and to die of old age! 'Wait on the LORD, and keep
His way, and He shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off,
thou shalt see it. For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD,
they shall inherit the earth' (Psalm 37:34,9). That, by itself, shows what an amazing quality of perseverance
this diligent man, Noah, possessed! 'Watching thereunto with all perseverance' (Ephesians 6:18). 'The hand
of the diligent shall bear rule' (Proverbs
12:24). And did Noah 'bear rule'? He 'prepared an Ark
to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world.'"--from "They That Wait Upon The LORD: Part 1: Noah" -- http://WhatSaithTheScripture.com/Fellowship/They.That.Wait.Noah.html
-- by
David Stewart.
"10 And he
stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11 And the dove came in to
him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf [a symbol of peace] plucked
off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the Earth. 12 And he stayed yet other seven days;
and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 13 And it came to pass in the
six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the
waters were dried up from off the Earth: and Noah removed the covering of the
ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 And in the second month, on the seven
and twentieth day of the month, was the Earth dried.
15 And God spake
unto Noah, saying, 16
Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
17 Bring forth
with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of
cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the Earth;that they may breed
abundantly in the Earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the Earth.
18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife,
and his sons' wives with him: 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever
creepeth upon the Earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. 20 And Noah builded an altar
unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered
burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the
LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in His heart, I will not again
curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil
from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have
done. 22 While
the Earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter,
and day and night shall not cease."
When Noah "took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt
offerings on the altar", it must have taken a great amount of FAITH. Just think,
the Earth had just been cleansed from any viable land-based food sources, and now
you are going to take some of that precious animal cargo that is to "breed abundantly
in the Earth, and be fruitful, and multiply", kill it, and offer it on an altar.
Noah was grateful! Noah believed that of "every clean beast, and of every clean
fowl" that had entered the ark by sevens, i.e., "of every clean beast thou
shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female... of fowls also of the air
by sevens, the male and the female", that part of the "sevens" were
to be used for sacrificial offerings to the LORD. And when the time came to offer
those animals, Noah's obedience demonstrated his FAITH, his love, and his gratitude.
And from Noah's time until our's, there has always been "seedtime and harvest,
and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night". Therefore, the
LORD accepted Noah's sacrifice of thanksgiving, and it was truly "a sweet
savour"! For "without FAITH it is impossible to please Him: for he that
cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a Rewarder of them that diligently
seek Him" (Hebrews 11:6).
Chapter 9
"And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the Earth. 2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast
of the Earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the Earth,
and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that liveth
shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. 4 But flesh with the life thereof,
which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. 5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand
of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's
brother will I require the life of man. 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for
in the image of God made He man. [For
more concerning "the image of God made He man", please read, "What the Bible Says About Abortion" -- http://WhatSaithTheScripture.com/Fellowship/What.Bible.Says.Abortion.html
-- by Katie Stewart.]
7 And you, be
ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the Earth, and multiply therein."
Side Note Number 2: Tom Stewart-- "According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, food production must double in order to have enough food for the 7.8 billion people expected by 2025. And, in 2050, India is projected to have slightly more people than China-- if the LORD should tarry. 'For yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry' (Hebrews 10:37).
The All Wise God certainly knew man's prospects when He gave the command to 'be fruitful, and multiply' (Genesis 1:28). Because ungodly man holds the 'Truth in unrighteousness' (Romans 1:18), the fruitfulness of having children that God intended to be a blessing for him, has become his curse. 'Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is His reward' (Psalms 127:3). 'If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto My Name, saith the LORD of Hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart' (Malachi 2:2). But, could not the All Powerful God have miraculously multiplied the planet's resources to have supplied man's needs, if they had walked in obedience? Certainly. 'Thou gavest also Thy Good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not Thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst' (Nehemiah 9:20).
But, in the Providence of God, the Eternal God understood that rebellious mankind would reach a conclusion, beyond which He would not allow them to continue. 'Because He hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man [Christ Jesus] Whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised [Jesus] from the dead' (Acts 17:31). It was a belief of the Early Church, as written in the extra-biblical Epistle of Barnabas, that man's time on this planet corresponded to the Creation Week. 'But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day' (2Peter 3:8). 6,000 years compared to the first six days of the Creation Week, while the Millennium (Revelation 20:4) would correspond to the Seventh Day or Sabbath; thus, some have termed it the Sabbath-Millennium Theory. 'And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made' (Genesis 2:2)." --from "Be Fruitful And Multiply: World Population Reaches 6 Billion" -- http://WhatSaithTheScripture.com/Timeline/Be.Fruitful.and.Multiply.html -- by Tom Stewart.
"8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9 And I, behold, I establish
My Covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of
the cattle, and of every beast of the Earth with you; from all that go out of the
ark, to every beast of the Earth. 11 And I will establish My Covenant with you; neither shall all flesh
be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more
be a flood to destroy the Earth."
God created the Earth. All that was created, God called
"very good".
And all that was created was in harmony with God, and functioned in the physical ways God had uniquely designed for each of them. Creation fulfilled the purposes which God had ordained, i.e.,
1. providing much pleasure and enjoyment for Himself, "Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created" (Revelation 4:11)., and,
2. providing man with an abundant environment that was complete and wonderful in every way, "28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the Earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the Earth. 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the Earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the Earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the Earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so" (Genesis 1:28-30).
The Earth was the highest "good" God could do for man in providing a place for him to live. On this side of Heaven, the Earth shined as the most beautiful "home" ever. It was absolute perfection-- until man sinned.
Mankind is the only puzzle piece in the whole of Creation that is moral in character. Only man was created in God's image, having a free will to understand and choose that which is right in God's sight and that which is evil. "Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good" (Romans 12:9). It is ONLY man's wicked choices that FORCE the LORD's hand to mar, and even destroy, the wondrous world He lovingly created.
The LORD must judge sin. In fact, "the LORD is known by the Judgment which He executeth" (Psalm 9:16).
Just as the LORD judged sin in Noah's time, so will He judge again in our time-- not "by the waters of a flood", but by a "great Tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be" (Matthew 24:21) [For more on the soon coming Tribulation, see the section of our website entitled, "Timeline" -- http://WhatSaithTheScripture.com/WStS.Timeline.html --].
"12 And God said, This is the token of the Covenant which I make
between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set
My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a Covenant between Me and the
Earth."
A covenant is a two-way agreement, a contract,
made between two or more individuals. A covenant is not just an unconditional promise
made by one individual. ALL parties in a covenant must uphold their word by
performing what each promised. Only then can a covenant be valid. But if one party
fails, the covenant is violated and made void.
Everything that science has discovered reveals only a tiny, finite particle of the
structure, imagination, and beauty found in the Infinite Mind of God. In God's Covenant
with the Earth, the Earth's part is to be in conformity with God's will and design.
The Earth, not being moral, agrees with God because it can do nothing else but agree.
The Earth fulfills its obligation to the Covenant made by God through operating in
the physical laws God gave it, i.e., gravity, energy, the mechanics and physical
properties of all natural phenomena. Scripture reveals the covenant relationship
that Creation has with its Creator.
In Creation, the LORD's handiwork is in concert
with its Creator.
1. The stones can cry out His praise.
2. The Earth helps His people.
3. The sea, the fields, and the woods are in one accord with His plans.
4. The wilderness and hills rejoice in His bounty.
And in Judgment, nature bends under the strain of man's sin and agrees with "the Judge of All the Earth" (Genesis 18:25).
"14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the Earth,
that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 And I will remember My Covenant, which is between Me and you and
every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to
destroy all flesh.
16 And the
bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the Everlasting
Covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the Earth.
17 And God said
unto Noah, This is the token of the Covenant, which I have established between Me
and all flesh that is upon the Earth. 18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and
Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole Earth
overspread."
The fact that there are three main shapes of skulls which define the races of
the world prove that "the three sons of Noah" repopulated the Earth, "and
of them was the whole Earth overspread".
Man, being moral, must uphold the Covenant by right moral actions to God's righteous
moral Law. When man breaks God's Law, he proclaims the worthlessness with which
he views God's Law. It is not his delight, nor does he respect It anymore than he
delights in or respects the One Who authored It.
If man doesn't regard God or His Law, then he obviously doesn't regard any Covenant offered by God. And when that happens, all contracts are off. [Read "Salvation Always Conditional" by C. G. Finney -- http://WhatSaithTheScripture.com/Voice/Oberlin_1840/OE1840.Salvation.Condition.html -- ]
When the people of the Earth are so completely evil, and God sees "that the wickedness of man [is] great in the Earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [is] only evil continually", then "it repent[s] the LORD that He had made man on the Earth, and it grieve[s] Him at His heart." Judgment must follow. God is Faithful, and requires His people to be full of FAITH. "The Father seeketh such to worship Him" (John 4:23).
Side Note Number 3: Tom Stewart-- "Solomon's prayer... indicates the understanding that Israel's godly king possessed of the character of God... 'There is no God like Thee, in Heaven above, or on Earth beneath, Who keepest covenant [i.e., performs His agreement or contract] and mercy with Thy servants that walk before Thee with all their heart' (1Kings 8:23). Whatever else that could be said of the Living God, Solomon knew that Jehovah keeps His Word, which binds Him to the Saints with an ironclad covenant. 'Know therefore that the LORD thy God, He is God, the Faithful God, which keepeth covenant [Hebrew, berith] and mercy with them that love Him and KEEP His Commandments to a thousand generations' (Deuteronomy 7:9). Of course, all that remains, is for man to be correspondingly faithful at keeping his word to God." --from "Keeping Covenant" by Tom Stewart.
We have been "warned of God of things not seen as yet".
Jesus is the Ark of Salvation for you and those in your house. Trust Him. Let Him draw you inside and allow the Father to shut you in, away from, and above The Judgment.
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"By FAITH Noah,
being warned of God of things not seen as yet,
moved with fear, prepared an ark
to the saving of his house;
by the which he condemned the world,
and became heir of the righteousness
which is by FAITH"
(Hebrews 11:7 ).
THE END
For more "Covenant" related material, please read:
Charles G. Finney's lectures in "The Oberlin Evangelist"
-- http://WhatSaithTheScripture.com/Fellowship/Finney.Oberlin.Evangelist.html -- , in particular,"The Promises"
-- http://WhatSaithTheScripture.com/Voice/Oberlin_1839/OE1839.The.Promises.html -- ,
"The Holy Spirit of Promise"
-- http://WhatSaithTheScripture.com/Voice/Oberlin_1839/OE1839.Holy.Spirit.Promise.html -- , and
"The Covenants"
-- http://WhatSaithTheScripture.com/Voice/Oberlin_1839/OE1839.The.Covenants.html --
and
the series
Keeping Covenant
-- http://WhatSaithTheScripture.com/W.S.t.S.Fellowship.html#Keeping
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God keeps His Word, and expects the same of us.
"And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like Thee, in Heaven above,
or on Earth beneath,
Who keepest covenant and mercy with Thy servants that walk before Thee with all their
heart"
(1Kings 8:23).
by Tom Stewart
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